My freshman year of college, I got in a fair spot of trouble. A drunk girl attacked me and though I did not even raise my arms to defend myself, she still hurt herself (slipped and fell on a wet metal grating and hit her head). She lived in my dorm, and told my RA I had pushed her, who then called the cops. The officers heard both sides of the story and I was let off with simply a warning to keep my distance.

The girl was not content with this, and filed a report with the dorm and got the campus womans advocacy center to support her. I was presumed by the administration to be guilty despite witness testimonial and a thick stack of letters positively regarding my character, I was not given due process or any fair representation. I had nowhere to turn. Soon after I was kicked out of the dorm and shunted into a shittier one halfway through the semester with a group of people I didnt know and banned from the dorm that housed all of my friends. My freshman year was essentially ruined.

Fast forward to the present day, my senior year of college. After the incident, my parents became close with the vice president of student affairs, and though nothing could be done to repair what had occurred my freshman year, she had become quite supportive of my family. My parents are fairly well off, and recently the school solicited my family for an endowment to be used for whatever my parents chose. They had been aware of the situation from the start, and felt it was a bastardization of justice that this girl had received support that was utterly damning to me while I received none. They wished to change that. The endowment will be going towards creating a representative body for accused men seeking representation. No longer will men on my campus be presumed guilty until never proven innocent. That will be the legacy of me and my family at my school. Thank you for listening.